Horace Busby Quotes

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

In the last era of the [civil rights] movement, the disenfranchised were the blacks, the colored. Now the disenfranchised are the have-nots, the unemployed, the hungry.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

Our nation's long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.